Change Management White Papers

Found 33 White Papers and Best Practices

Successful change management in concerned with ensuring that the processes by which any necessary changes are made to an organization’s control IT infrastructure are managed in the smoothest and most efficient manner possible. Best practices make certain that any level of disruption is kept to an absolute minimum.

IThound.com has white papers, web seminars and case studies demonstrating how change to an organization’s IT systems and applications can best be managed, as well as some useful software product specs and analyst reports.

Most organisations are aware of the value of being able to change frequently and easily, but need to backup this awareness with a culture of flexibility and agility. This paper gives some ideas on how to approach change management to ensure on-going success.
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Quality issues with a core sales and administration application were disrupting business and severely impacting operational efficiency. Find out how Ageas 50 solved the problem and significantly improved the quality of deployed applications with post deployment issues reducing by over 94%.
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This paper looks at three key principles which underpin the link between change management and security. It argues that ineffective change management can lead to a complete breakdown of an overall security programme, and that automated assessment, real-time monitoring and continuous enforcement are
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Fixed function devices are a major security risk. Patching security holes can actually void the vendor’s warranty, additional security protection like Intrusion Prevention Systems, or firewalls can’t be applied because there is no system memory to run them from and even traditional blacklisting and
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Given the rapid growth in the number of virtual machines being deployed, it’s no surprise that scalability, performance, and the overall volume of storage capacity have been identified as key challenges.
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This white paper discusses three significant issues with group policy change management using native tools, and describes a solution for applying best practices for change management to group policy.
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It is safe to say that neither the ITIL or IT service Management (ITSM) processes nor the BSM functions that leverage ITSM can be efficiently carried out without accurate configuration and dependency information. This paper, from Enterprise Strategy Group, examines the ASG approach.
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This paper walks through the key stages of selecting a new system, especially in collaboration with a five-year business plan: strategic decisions, selection process, planning and implementation.
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One of a series of papers from IBM looking at the evolving role of the CIO. This paper deals with the challenges presented to those who want to move IT from a technology centric approach to one of business enablement.
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